What a difference a few months make. When we profiled Josh Hutcherson in The Verge last August , he was a promising young actor in two low-profile films that failed to do much business. This year, though, his career has taken off with a bang: not only was he heavily considered to play the title character in the reboot of Spider-Man , but the 17-year-old has supplanted Brendan Fraser as the star of their franchise, Journey to the Center of the Earth . And then there’s Lisa Cholodenko’s The Kids Are All Right : as Laser, the young son who spurs his mothers (Annette Bening and Julianne Moore) to meet the sperm donor who fathered him, Hutcherson turns in a winning performance in one of the best films of the year. Last month, I sat down with the up-and-comer to discuss how shocked he was that people found Kids to be a comedy, what exactly is going on with the troubled remake of Red Dawn , and how he feels when he loses out on a major role (in what turned out to be a prescient conversation).
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Josh Hutcherson: ‘Everybody Has Roles They Wanted and Didn’t Get’
